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Okay, since poor Tsukasa was cut off sharply in the preview, we're left with little to guess on.

But a few things:
- Miyuki's "manly" other side
- Kagamin trying out Kona's manga
- Akira backlash on Shirashi for taking her pigtail role (TWIN DORIRU!)
- According to the official website (which just had a Shirashi section open), Shirashi would be revealing his likes and dislikes soon.
- More of Izumi-chi-chi

It was a parody of all the other shows that do/have done something similar. (ex. Bleach early eps) Just that it would be logically Tsukasa who would end up in that situation.

WHY!? Just WHY do you people try to find references in every single frame to other stuff?!

They put a short preview because they fucking wanted to. It's ridiculous to link it with some other show, because it's something extremely generic, it's not something particularly characteristic of a specific series/manga/whatever. There are shows with shorter previews than that, or with no preview at all.

People need to realize that being a show with many references doesn't mean that everything is a reference to something else.

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WHY!? Just WHY do you people try to find references in every single frame to other stuff?!

They put a short preview because they fucking wanted to. It's ridiculous to link it with some other show, because it's something extremely generic, it's not something particularly characteristic of a specific series/manga/whatever. There are shows with shorter previews than that, or with no preview at all.

People need to realize that being a show with many references doesn't mean that everything is a reference to something else.

They did a short preview because Haruhi...wait hold on....wait.....okay it was a homage to er...that one episode of Haruhi where they didn't do the opening and...aw screw it.

@wanderingknight: I feel your aggravation --- the series actually does get most of its material from the manga after all (outside of the explicit references) and much of the stuff is just part of nostalgic japanese school culture. I remember wasting a lot of time on the usenet-animaniacs forum deciding whether or what something was referencing (and often it was a layered reference).

Of course, the animaniacs people were intentionally layering things. The difficulty with Lucky*Star is that it adapting source manga material and is already immersed in standard cultural artifacts and common directing techniques.

It aggravates me more seeing others get into a hissy fit about it than the actual people who see references in everything... I know it's silly to see references that aren't there but it would be a lot nicer to just point out that it's probably not a reference instead of blowing up at it. There's a difference between letting someone know they've made a mistake and making them feel like they're stupid.

Now... I'm so disappointed I won't be able to download and watch the ep 'till later this week.

They put a short preview because they fucking wanted to. It's ridiculous to link it with some other show, because it's something extremely generic, it's not something particularly characteristic of a specific series/manga/whatever. There are shows with shorter previews than that, or with no preview at all.

You would be right about people looking everywhere... except that the lines are exactly the same. Beside, it's a style parody since they showed absolutely nothing. It's not a specific reference to any series. There are other ways to do parody beside referencing something specific.